The dysregulated mind has a propensity toward exaggerated phasic dopamine surges which results in heavy encoding of the lessons of life. We learn fast and we learn hard.
What we struggle with is the consolidation of these minima into a single insight.
This single insight is as simple as reading a face or the atmosphere in a room. It is as complex as Einstein realising the theory or relativity or the Buddha realising his final enlightenment. Everything on this website is the result of one of these insight chains.
The deeper the learning, the more force required for consolidation. I will detail how to apply this force in another article.
Before you can consolidate an insight, you need to line up the silos of cognition.
The Buddha did not have written language and was surely a genius-level intellect to hold the entirety of his dhamma within his mind. However the dhamma was merely the scaffold that he used to achieve his insight. His insight was the liberation from all suffering. Once he achieved that, the dhamma became academic.
Einstein had written language and also lined up all his silos of thought before pushing through to the final insight. This is the approach I used, and the one I will detail here.
This is an iterative process so you need to start where you are and consolidate multiple times. The number of consolidations is not important; some will be large and some will be small and they are all leading to your final answer to your own [bigproblem].
The cycle is simple: export, review, consolidate, rollback.
First you export the thoughts. You do this while regulating. The methods I used were:
messaging myself while walking
messaging myself while cycling
writing my 88 hells while making knives out of old samurai swords
The important thing is that you can ‘close’ the task once a micro-thought has been exported, and that you coax the thought out by doing a repetitive motion to lubricate the mind.
For me it would look like this:
walk around texting myself
put these on my website
review the texts before sleep
wake in the morning and write an extended article with a time stamp
walk around texting myself or writing articles as the inspiration took me
review everything before sleep
rinse, repeat
I would put everything onto my website with time stamps so it was ‘task: closed’ and I could devote full attention to the next. I would review it with my phone web browser so that the font and medium were different and the information would be encoded into a different part of my brain.
I would then sleep or cycle or do my evening routine of humming in the bath and meditating. This would consolidate the minima and I would wake up the next morning with more insight.
These insights would become more and more coherent until I reached a critical mass. This is a physical sensation in the brain. For me it felt like electricity or a swelling; like the mind was primed and just needed a final nudge.
I would then do a turbo session (cycling + meditation // bath-hum + cold shower + meditation // meditation + music + dance) to consolidate. Eventually these would produce a cessation event and I would have an encounter with nibbana. The n2 cessation happened during sleep.
You can think of nibbana as a turbo-charged version of sleep. Rather than pruning small pathways, this will consolidate all of the thoughts you have lined up in the preceding days / weeks.
One of the first concepts to go was the idea of a fixed self in a changing world. This first event also erased my rejection sensitive dysphoria, which had been crippling. I thought I was enlightened, and by all accounts I was, since everything is relative.
Subsequent events only reduced the suffering further. I do not know if there is an end to the rabbithole.
Once your thoughts have been consolidated like this you will probably ‘present as manic’ unless you have the sustained attentional capacity to drive the car. Do not go to the doctor and tell them you feel like Jesus or the Buddha, even if you do. Just go for a walk and enjoy it.
Recognise that after this there will be a lot of fluctuation between total confidence and utter doubt as your brain oscillates between the [realworld] and [scaffold].
This can get rough so please read the [welcome] article time and again, or write your own if you are using a different scaffold. I have no intention to create a cult or religion and the welcome was written for myself after experiencing the confusion from n1.
This is the time to write and to walk. Your insights will come flooding out. That science problem you were working on or that art project that had ground to a halt or the project of enlightenment… all of these will leap forward.
Your mind is also running through the pruned code to see if it still has a place to attach to your new [rootcode]. A lot of it will not, so you will find yourself feeling ‘phantom anxiety’ or other such habits which then just fall away instead of being able to bite your mind. This is the falling away of conditioning of which the Buddha talked.
The trajectory of this reprogramming is *not* guaranteed to be positive. You must be very careful with what you put into your new system, because you will be incredibly optimised when you reboot. Do not optimise for greed or hatred or you yourself will suffer greatly.
I recommend the buddhist philosophy or my neo-buddhism if you are looking for a modern tl;dr take.
This code will shape your new world - choose wisely.
Anyway I am off to get my kid from school.
You are what you eat.
Eat well.
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